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| Melopoeia can be
appreciated by a foreigner with a sensitive ear, even though he be ignorant of the
language in which the poem is written. More than to read poetry we must listen to poetry. . . . And . . . the ear that has listened to the greatest number of sounds will have the most to choose from when it comes to self-expression. . . .The test of poetry is the range of pleasure it affords as . . . sound . . . [as well as sight and intellection.] It is by their syllables that words juxtapose in beauty, by these particles of sound as clearly as by the sense of the words which they compose . . . . the obedience of his ear to the syllables. (Pound, Literary Essays) (Loy, "Modern Poetry") (Zukofsky, Prepositions) (Olson, "Projective Verse") |
Orality and
Aurality 